{"id":1415,"date":"2012-01-30T13:14:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T11:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lotuscortinainfo.com\/?page_id=1415"},"modified":"2025-02-03T20:43:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T18:43:48","slug":"mk-1-european-race-cars","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.lotuscortinainfo.com\/?page_id=1415","title":{"rendered":"Mk 1 European Race Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

NORWEGIAN ICE RACER\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This car was imported to Norway by Ford Motor\u00a0Co. in January 1965, and was one of only 51 Production Racing Mk 1 Lotus Cortinas built at Cheshunt. It is one of the earliest Aeroflow cars (only a few numbers from the first Aeroflow car), and was therefore of course right hand drive and still with the \u2018A\u2019 Frame rear suspension.<\/p>\n

As a factory prepared race car, it was completed with all the aluminium castings and aluminium panels, together with a Cosworth engine, close ratio gearbox and race suspension. See the \u2018Mk 1 Definition\u2019 Section, and within that, \u2018Mk 1 Production Racing Conversions\u2019 for a period write-up and full specification on these, the rarest and most desirable of all the Mk 1 Lotus Cortinas.<\/p>\n

The car was driven by Trond Schea in ice racing on frozen lakes, in hill climbs and on gravel horse tracks\u00a0 with great success.<\/p>\n

In 1967 the car was sold to Odd Moseby, and like Trond Schea, he was outstanding with this Lotus Cortina and achieved many victories<\/p>\n

In the period from 1980 to 1985, the car was restored back to its original group 2 specification.<\/p>\n

Here is a selection of photographs from 1965 onwards kindly supplied by Holm Jacob Matheson, the current owner. They show just how much a competition car can go through in its career, including a couple of major accidents.\u00a0 But she\u2019s alive and well and still being raced on the ice today by Holm.<\/p>\n

This is a fascinating insight into racing (almost rallycross) that most of us outside Scandinavia will not be used to seeing.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Trond Schea in “Kanonloppet” Sweden 1965 with a very new looking car.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Trond Schea in “Bjerkeracet” Oslo 1965<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a023mm studs in the tires, extreme traction !! (Sandvika, Oslo 1965)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Trond Schea and his mechanic Greger Str\u00f8m in Denmark 1965, and Trond with his successful Cortina<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Trond Schea winning an ice race in Oslo in 1966<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pic 6<\/p>\n

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Pic 7<\/p>\n

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Pic 8\"\"<\/p>\n

Pic 9<\/p>\n

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Odd Moseby rolled the car in \u201cBjerkerace\u201d in Oslo 1969<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This is a very nice pic of Trond Schea and Odd Moseby (right) sitting on the LC in Trondheim in Norway after \u201cLeangen Grand Cup\u201d in 1967. Trond and Ford Norway had got the first Escort Twin Cam and Odd had taken over the LC. They raced in the same class and race and \u2026\u2026\u2026 Odd won in front of the new TC!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Back ice racing in 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Restored to perfection, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

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NORWEGIAN ICE RACER\u00a0 This car was imported to Norway by Ford Motor\u00a0Co. in January 1965, and was one of only 51 Production Racing Mk 1 Lotus Cortinas built at Cheshunt. It is one of the earliest Aeroflow cars (only a few numbers from the first Aeroflow car), and was therefore of course right hand drive…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1364,"menu_order":16,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1415","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lotuscortinainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lotuscortinainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lotuscortinainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lotuscortinainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lotuscortinainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.lotuscortinainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3796,"href":"http:\/\/www.lotuscortinainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1415\/revisions\/3796"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lotuscortinainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lotuscortinainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}